为什么大自然的万物会塑造出他们所呈现的模样？为什么鸟儿会飞？为什么小儿会去造出我们所见的鸟巢结构？啄木鸟是怎样啄洞的？这一类的问题Lorna Gibson博士在麻省理工学院的新生研讨会会有相当的琢磨。我们邀请你ㄧ起与我们探索其中的奥妙。
Why are things in nature shaped the way they are? How do birds fly? Why do bird nests look the way they do? How do woodpeckers peck? These are the types of questions Dr. Lorna Gibson's freshman seminar at MIT has been investigating. We invite you to explore with us.
这一类的问题是属于拟生物研究的题材。当工程师复制自然界中的结构我们就称之为拟生物学。拟生态这个字来自于bio这个字首，当生物学与仿制放在一起，这个字的意义在于复制的意涵。
Questions such as these are the subject of biomimetic research. When engineers copy the shapes found in nature we call it Biomimetics. The word biomimic comes from bio, as in biology and mimetic, which means to copy.
